The real problem is not the crazy over-bids. Those people are either drunk or clueless and that will take care of itself. The big issue is all the many, many, bids that are right at or even just a hair below regular online pricing. That means a lack of bargains and that means its not worth the time, trouble, and uncertainty of bidding when you can just get what you want right away.

The real death of a bidding site is not one person paying $50 for a single Gurkha, its too many people paying right at retail for sticks available elsewhere.

Well, I think ther are several other factors contributing to the price hikes.

One of them simply being higher starting points, here, and other places.

On another note, anyone else notice the pricing program the other place has in place for many popular items.

I've been watching it for a few months now.

"Fiver A" opens at $18, and there's 5 lots.

If all lots get bids, the next time Fiver A comes up, the starting point is higher, $19 or $20.

If all lots get bids, it goes up again.

At some point, people refuse to bid. After a week or two of no bids, the price drops back down, and the process starts over.

Pretty slick.

Just looked at some prices of things I've bought here in the past, they are up higher than the point than I'm willing to pay for them, and that's ok... It just means I won't be buying them :)

As far as the higher starting prices like KotC mentioned, I actually don't mind them as long as it's a decent deal. I know on another site with higher starting prices, if I'm in buy mode, and it's a decent deal, I'll bid. It's more like a standard shopping cart at that point.

I don't need DP Newell level pricing to buy, but I do look for the best deal I can get at the moment when I'm buying.

I'll probably wait till after summer before I go back on cigar buy mode anyway, so hopefully by then it's calmed down a bit.

CIGARBID....

AND...

BELIEVE IT OR NOT?

The C-BID FORUM HAS PROBABLY HAS PLAYED

A BIG PART ...in ME N.O.T. GETTING

MURDERED BY THE FBI-SSG DIVISION...

because my whole true story is on here ( and could be pulled up by any BLIND MONKEY to burn the FBI-SSG's azzes ) and it's been an essential part of my WORLDWIDE DOCUMENTED

"ESSURANCE PLAN" against these COWARD shadow government killers....

Now , back to bidding....

It is very very different than 2005 to 2014....

THEN

2015 to 2016...the tides were turning...

2017 ...well it an exercise in futility and

Way overpriced...

Not C-bids doing at all...

Just too many rich people found out about this site and dont stop bidding at 75%-50% off retail like we all used to...

Ohhhh, the good old cheap bidding dayzzzz are gone forever...

I'm afraid

I hear the SSG discount program is ending too.

Wha'cha gonna do with your pants on the ground...

Lol

never mind this thread...

I am totally enthralled to see you are probably in the top ten longest tenured members here...yet have posted approximately every 10 years.

So, are you a locust?

I thought you was like a genius?

Look at his handle.........Submerj...:-k

Not a locust.....something that comes out of the water, or swamp......every 10 years.

SwampMan!

http://williamjevning.com/americas-abominable-swamp-man/ 

This might actually be a good thing actually since i get to save some money and burn thru the stash.

So is misspelling.

wow, a noob bashing a noob...cool

And don't ignore Cbid. Depending on what you want and how well you are at playing the game, Cbid still should be on your radar. I tend to buy cigars once a month and probably use Cbid every 3rd or 4th month. For certain cigars, Cbid still can't be beat.